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Papua New Guinea's Western Province averages one person per square kilometer (3 per sq. mi.). The Simbu Province in the New Guinea highlands averages 20 persons per square kilometer (52 persons/sq mi) and has areas containing up to 200 people farming a square kilometer of land. The highlands have 40% of the population.
List of Oceanian countries by population growth rate. Add languages. Add links. Article; ... Annual growth (%) 1 ... Papua New Guinea:
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [1] ... Papua New Guinea * 2.31: 2023: 1.8:
The population of the Western Province refugee camps during the 2000 census was set at around 10,000, although the number of Indonesian refugees in the country is much higher. Squatter settlements Whole country; Most population centres in Papua New Guinea have shantytown-styled settlements, referred to as squatter settlements. Many people move ...
This is a list of Oceanian countries and dependencies by population in Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Projections are from the United Nations [ 1 ] and official figures are from the Pacific Community [ 2 ] and other official sources.
The natural increase in population, from the CIA World Factbook, 2017. ... Papua New Guinea: 29.0: 5.5: ... List of countries by population growth rate; Notes
Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] [note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
The economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is largely underdeveloped with the vast majority of the population living below the poverty line. [20] However, according to the Asian Development Bank its GDP is expected to grow 3.4% in 2022 and 4.6% in 2023. [ 21 ]